Understanding the relationship between safety beliefs and knowledge for cognitive enhancers in UK university students.

PLoS One · 2021 · PMC7842904 · PMID 33508011

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approaching significanceno p-value reported

marginally significantno p-value reported

This is very much in keeping with the weight of reviewer opinion in our experience, wherein we have regularly seen authors chastised by reviewers for describing effects with p = .07 or p = .08 as ‘approaching significance’ or ‘marginally significant’.

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an important trendno p-value reported

While this is an important trend relating to the objective of this study; the reliability of this difference is unclear because its statistical power was weak.

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